Chapter 33: Selling the Fields

After the second phase was launched, it sold out quickly. Now Zitian Jingye and the others are happy, because there are fewer and fewer people living in tents. More and more people are living in houses.

And the city is not so messy, of course, those who built houses before still live there, that part of the city is still so messy, but the north city, the newly built residential community, is very beautiful, green trees, flowers, beautiful houses are hidden in the flowers and trees, the roads are wide, neat and clean.

Without the propaganda of officials in these cities, those people think that the houses in the residential areas are good, and they can't stand it anymore when they look at the houses there and then look at the crooked houses they have built, or the houses that are only sturdy and have no aesthetic sense. As a result, many people have begun to work harder, or are already thinking about whether to make a down payment to buy a house.

Unfortunately, there are very few such houses, and the first residential communities were quickly sold out, and most of the people who bought them were workers in Tongren City, who worked in the construction workshop, and the workshop promised to give them work, not only for good wages, good food, but also for the priority of down payment to buy a house. These workers can save a few taels of silver paper after working for a few months, or they can save a few taels of silver paper, which is enough to pay a down payment to buy a house. As for the money to be repaid every month, it is not easy? Isn't this the second phase of the residential complex still under construction? Therefore, this work will continue to be done, and every month's salary, if it is not spent, it will be returned to the bank, and in a few years, this house will be their own. How nice.

Therefore, more residents of Tongren City are willing to work in residential communities. So. The workshop recruited more people, and the progress of the project was faster, and soon, the second, third, and fourth phases were built.

Chen Wenhui was very happy and didn't bother much. has already made a lot of money from Tongren City. Of course. She also had an idea, that is, the planning of those houses in Tongren City was too ugly, and she really didn't want such an ugly city to appear under her rule. There is no way, so I have to make a move, plan and beautify them. And, of course, make a little money by the way.

That's how the days go by. Gui Yuxia's family has ushered in a second harvest. This time, the harvest was very good, the rice grown in the 500 acres of paddy fields was very good, and it could be sold for a lot of money, and the most important thing was that I finally didn't have to buy grain from outside. I guess these have been able to eat for a long time. However, the storage of food is a problem. It's not the north, it's hot and humid. Grain is very easy to mold, therefore, can not be stored more, can only save enough for one season to eat, anyway, the next season's grain is about to be harvested, because on the 5,000 acres of land on the outskirts of the city, there is a small piece of rice planted in the early reclaim, and it is about to ripen.

This is thanks to the climate of this place, hot and rainy all year round, the dry season is very short, and even the dry season is not cold, crops, vegetables are growing very fast, when this stubble is harvested, there are still a few stubbles are growing, sometimes there will be, the same three plots of land, one is already yellow and yellow can be harvested, one is still green seedlings, and one is still preparing to plant seedlings. Therefore, the harvest here is not like in the north, which is timed, here the crops are harvested when they are ripe, and they are harvested while planting, so that there is no need to store a large amount of grain, and the surplus grain is sold.

Now there are more and more merchants who come to Qingchun City to collect grain. Because the four cities of Luzon in the South Seas have basically become good places to produce food after more than a year of construction. There is a lot of food output every month. Of course, in addition to grain, there are many special things produced, such as spices, such as fruits, such as prepared dried fruits, jams, fish sauces, dried sea fish, ores, furniture, precious embroidery, these things attract businessmen.

Da Niu is now a big manor owner, but this is nothing, he has now harvested all the grain in the five hundred acres of land, and now he is going to the restaurant to discuss with a businessman from Da Chu about selling the land.

Now Qingchun City has begun to take shape, the construction of the city wall is still continuing, and even the sewer project is also continuing. Residential complexes are still being built in the city. However, Dongcheng is already full of shops, and many people have bought shops here and are doing business. There are restaurants, ready-to-wear shops, and various shops. Da Niu has long set his sights on a shop on the second commercial street in Dongcheng. The shop was large, with three floors, and a large courtyard with a warehouse and a podium for living in the house. It's just that this big shop is very expensive, and many people want to buy it. Da Niu relied on his wife's relationship and paid a deposit of one hundred taels of silver first. In this way, after another month's work, the shops on this street are completed, and they can be bought at the expense of money, and the preliminary estimate is that the price will be about 3,000 taels.

With so much money, if it had been before, Da Niu would not have dared to think about it. However, now, because of his good vision, he has kept taking out loans to open up wasteland, and now he has more than 5,000 acres of land, and he has land in his hands, so he has confidence in his heart. In addition, the land on the edge of the city appreciated rapidly, and many people were willing to buy it, and now the highest bidder has been sold for three taels of silver per acre. If this is sold, you will get 1,500 taels of silver. Of course, there are some taxes to pay. However, the big cow also made a lot of money selling grain, and basically paid the tax. In this way, there are 1,500 taels of silver, plus some funds saved by their husband and wife, plus his wife Gui Yuxia can withdraw half a year's money in advance, so that it is about 500 taels short of 3,000 taels.

Da Niu is ready to take out a bank loan of 2,000 taels of silver at that time, so set aside 500 taels to fill the gap, buy the shop, and have 1,500 taels left to decorate, find a buddy, buy goods, and start doing business.

A qiē plan is such a good thing, so today's negotiation is very important, and we must do our best to finalize the sale of these 500 acres of land.

Da Niu thought as he walked up to the restaurant. As soon as the restaurant saw that Da Niu hurriedly led Da Niu to an Accord and served tea, the merchant of Da Chu was already waiting.

This merchant of Dachu was a grain merchant from the south of the Yangtze River, who often traveled back and forth to Yizhou Island and Luzon Island to buy grain and sell it back to Dachu. Sometimes, they bring some special products, such as pepper and other spices. He came and went, and he also fell in love with this beautiful place.

The city here is very beautiful and peaceful, and the design of the city is even better than that of Shin Kong City. It is even more incomparable to the city of Dachu. Because of his business dealings, he bought a large and beautifully designed house here, and arranged for his two sons to be here. Originally, in Da Chu's family, the sons were all older, because there were many struggles between the wives and concubines, and the feelings of the sons were not good, and the sons who came out of the concubine could not get the family property, although he was still alive, it was already possible to predict that after his death, it must be the time when the sons fought for the family property and fought hard. He didn't want such a scene to happen. Now, as long as you buy a house in Qingchun City and buy a piece of land, so that the two sons can settle down in this beautiful city, and naturally they will not compete with the sons of the concubines for the family property, and a family tragedy will be avoided.

Now that the house has been bought, all that remains is to buy the land. He didn't want to buy land far from the city. After all, this is a wild land, and there are many natives harassing the city, he just wants to farm in peace and stability, and he wants to buy the good paddy fields on the edge of the city. After many days of looking at each other, he valued Da Niu's 500 acres of land.

It was really a good land, and it was envious to see the big ox leading the Japanese slaves to harvest the golden rice. The merchant had already decided to buy the land even if he paid a high price of three taels of silver per acre. In fact, three taels of silver per acre of land is expensive here. Because in the far suburbs of the city, those wastelands are very cheap, one or two silver can buy two acres of land, if you buy mountain land, one or two silver is three acres of mountain land, and one acre of flat land. However, it was a wasteland overgrown with miscellaneous trees, and it had to be cleared, so how could his pampered sons do such work? It's better to buy the land that has been cultivated by others.

Besides, three taels of silver per acre of land is nothing compared to Da Chu. In the capital, an acre of land costs twenty or thirty taels of silver. Even in the south of the Yangtze River, it costs more than ten taels of silver per acre. Three taels of silver per acre of land here is already very cheap. However, the land produced here is not less than that of the capital and the land in the south of the Yangtze River. On the contrary, because of the climate, there is a lot of grain in the land here, and two or even three crops can be planted a year. If you want to grow vegetables, you may be able to plant five or six crops. Because there is no winter here.

This Da Chu businessman was thinking, Da Niu had already pushed the door in, and the two of them saluted each other, Da Niu is now in the night school, and he is also a literate person, basic politeness, etiquette, and a lot of words he knows, he can read simple books, plan to plate, and settle accounts, so he talked with this Da Chu businessman one by one.

This businessman of Da Chu was no longer surprised, because during the period of doing business in Qingchun City, he had seen a lot of farmers who sold grain knew how to read and were polite. He was surprised at first, but later learned that it was the welfare here. Not only did the children go to school for free, but the peasants and even the slaves could go to night school for free. In the night school, it was not like the private school of Da Chu, but the Confucian Four Books and Five Classics. They taught simple literacy, as well as practical manners, etiquette, arithmetic, the plan plate, the calculation of areas, and so on. The most important thing is how to grow crops. Therefore, the farmers here are very good at farming, and the harvest is more.

The business was quickly negotiated, and both of them achieved their goal, and happily sat down for a meal, and then went to the yamen to go to the stalls, pay taxes, and go through the formalities. (To be continued)

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